Get reminders with nudges

Nudges gives you 2 types of alerts:

• Reply reminders to follow up after a certain time to a message you sent or received
• Birthday reminders to wish a contact a Happy Birthday

To use Nudges, you must have:

• The Messages app locale set to English (United States).
• An Android OS version L and up. Nudges doesn’t work on Android Go OS devices.

Tip: By default, Nudges is on. To turn off Nudges, at the top right, tap your profile photo Messages settings Suggestions Nudges.

Reply reminders:

• Prompt you to reply to messages you haven’t yet replied to
• Show outgoing messages that you haven’t followed up on

Google uses Machine Learning models to predict when you send or receive a message that might need follow-up.

A Nudge:

• Shows at the top of your conversation list and in the conversation
• Is dismissed when a new message is sent or received in that conversation

Birthday reminders:

• Alert you when it’s a saved contact’s birthday
• Prompt you to send a contact a Happy Birthday message

Google:

• Only alerts you if the people you chat with have their birthdays listed in your contacts app
• Moves the conversation to the top of the conversation list
• Adds a message at the top of your conversation that says “It’s their birthday!” and shows a birthday cake icon
• Processes on-device only and birthdays are not uploaded to Google servers